Effectively Wild Episode 1675: Season Preview Series: Dodgers and Orioles
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2021
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the completion of the season preview series and the Marlins renaming Marlins Park “loanDepot park,” do a draft of current corporate-sponsored MLB ballpark names from least to most objectionable, and then preview the 2021 Dodgers (24:20) with Pedro Moura of the The Athletic and the 2021 Orioles (1:09:03) with Joe Trezza of MLB.com.
Audio intro: Toto, "We Made It"
Audio interstitial 1: Kiwi Jr., "Dodger"
Audio interstitial 2: Matthew Sweet, "Baltimore"
Audio outro: Gene Clark, "Opening Day"
Link to Ben on the Dodgers
Link to Andy McCullough on the Dodgers as champs
Link to Pedro on Lux
Link to Pedro on Bellinger
Link to Pedro on Seager
Link to Pedro on Bauer
Link to Pedro and Dennis Lin on Dodgers-Padres
Link to Zach Kram on the Dodgers-Padres race
Link to Joe on Mancini
Link to Joe on Santander
Link to Joe on the Orioles’ new Dominican facility
Link to Ben on Jannis and the knuckleball
Link to Ben on the Brennameme
Link to Ben on the new baseball
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| 0:00.0 | MADE A MADE A MADE A max |
| 0:03.3 | Know the thing can make it again |
| 0:07.6 | MADE A MADE A MAID A MAID A LEAPA |
| 0:15.0 | Made a else |
| 0:18.0 | Know the thing can make it again |
| 0:22.8 | MADE A MADE A MAID A MAID A MID A |
| 0:25.7 | Hello and welcome to episode 1675 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangrass presented |
| 0:37.7 | by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:39.6 | I am Ben Minberg of the Ringer joined by Meg Rally of Fangrass, Meg, and we made it! |
| 0:45.5 | We did it! |
| 0:46.5 | Ugh, we made it. |
| 0:48.2 | 30 teams down or about to be down. |
| 0:51.2 | This is our last season preview podcast and isn't that fortuitous timing because this is |
| 0:56.3 | about the last moment that we could have a season preview podcast without the season |
| 1:00.5 | having started already. |
| 1:01.7 | So we will get the Dodgers in today. |
| 1:04.7 | The best projected team in baseball will be talking to Pedro Mora of the Athletic about |
| 1:09.3 | them. |
| 1:10.3 | And then we will be talking to Joe Treza of MLB.com about the lowly Baltimore Orioles, but |
| 1:16.7 | they all deserve respect. |
| 1:18.2 | We talk about all the teams no matter how bad they are, you cannot say that we have ignored |
| 1:23.4 | your team because we have spent the last several weeks talking about every single one of them. |
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